On June 17th 1926, the body of 22-year-old Sylvia Gaines was found on the shore of Green Lake in Seattle. The city was shocked. Who could have murdered this young woman so brutally?
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The Blood Countess: Elizabeth Bathory
In 16th century Hungary the “Infamous Lady” Elizabeth Bathory allegedly tortured and killed hundreds of her adolescent servant girls, bathing in and drinking their blood to renew her youth and beauty. Or did she?
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Comet Lodge Cemetery
It’s not every day you come across a park, err cemetery, littered in gravestones, surrounded by a quiet neighborhood, built atop children’s graves, rumored to house pioneer ghost children. Welcome to Comet Lodge Cemetery.
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For over the last 100 years, the Empress Hotel has been frequented by royalty, celebrities and movie stars…and ghosts.
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Victorian Ghost Histories of Christmas Pasts
Charles Dickens wasn’t the only one who wrote Christmas ghost stories. Where did they come from? Why Christmas ghost stories and not Halloween?
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Lizzie Borden Part Two: The Trial & Hauntings
How would you feel if your parents’ skulls were presented to you in a court room as you were tried for their murders? Not exactly the definition of a pleasant afternoon.
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Eat Your Heart Out, Mercy Brown: America’s First Vampire
Before there was Dracula, there was the real life, well documented vampire of New England, Mercy Brown. Or at least that’s what some liked to call her.
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Fox Hollow Farm Part 2: The Hauntings
With the dark past of murders, a home like Fox Hollow Farm is bound to have a certain energy left behind.
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Fox Hollow Farm Part 1: The Murders
When authorities found thousands of human bones scattered in the woods of Fox Hollow Farm in the 90s, all arrows started to point at one potential culprit of the plethora of missing and murdered gay men in the Indianapolis area.
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The Shadows Of Falcon Lair
Within its walls, Falcon Lair housed Hollywood sex symbols, socialites and heiresses haunted by self destruction and ghosts of the past.
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